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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 3rd of June 0350 | EVENT | Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators. |
| 3rd of June 1098 | EVENT | First Crusade: Antioch falls to the crusaders after an eight-month siege. |
| 3rd of June 1140 | EVENT | French scholar Peter Abelard is found guilty of heresy. |
| 3rd of June 1326 | EVENT | Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark. |
| 3rd of June 1539 | EVENT | DeSoto claims Florida for Spain. |
| 3rd of June 1608 | EVENT | Samuel de Champlain completes his third voyage to New France at Tadoussac, Quebec. |
| 3rd of June 1620 | EVENT | Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. |
| 3rd of June 1621 | EVENT | The Dutch West India Company receives a charter for New Netherlands. |
| 3rd of June 1658 | EVENT | Pope Alexander VII appoints Francois de Laval vicar apostolic in New France. |
| 3rd of June 1665 | EVENT | James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England) defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft. |
| 3rd of June 1770 | EVENT | Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo is founded in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. |
| 3rd of June 1800 | EVENT | U.S. President John Adams takes up residence in Washington, D.C. (in a tavern because the White House was not yet completed). |
| 3rd of June 1839 | EVENT | In Humen, China, Lin Tse-hsu destroys 1.2 million kg of opium confiscated from British merchants, providing Britain with a casus belli to open hostilities, resulting in the First Opium War. |
| 3rd of June 1850 | EVENT | The traditional founding date of Kansas City, Missouri. This is the date on which it is first incorporated by Jackson County, Missouri, as the "City of Kansas". |
| 3rd of June 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Philippi (also called the Philippi Races) : Union forces rout Confederate troops in Barbour County, Virginia, now West Virginia, in first land battle of the War. |
| 3rd of June 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor : Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia. |
| 3rd of June 1866 | EVENT | The Fenians are driven out of Fort Erie, Ontario, into the United States. |
| 3rd of June 1885 | EVENT | In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, Cree leader Big Bear escapes the North West Mounted Police. |
| 3rd of June 1888 | EVENT | The poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is published in the San Francisco Examiner. |
| 3rd of June 1889 | EVENT | The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon. |
| 3rd of June 1889 | EVENT | The coast to coast Canadian Pacific Railway is completed. |
| 3rd of June 1916 | EVENT | The Reserve Officer Training Corps or ROTC is established by the U.S. Congress. |
| 3rd of June 1916 | EVENT | The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men. |
| 3rd of June 1932 | EVENT | Lou Gehrig and teammate Tony Lazzeri hit four home runs in one game, and hit for the natural cycle, respectively. These two feats are both less common than a perfect game, which has occurred twenty one times in one hundred and twenty years. |
| 3rd of June 1935 | EVENT | One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario. |
| 3rd of June 1937 | EVENT | The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson. |
| 3rd of June 1940 | EVENT | World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris. |
| 3rd of June 1940 | EVENT | World War II: The Battle of Dunkirk ends with a German victory and with Allied forces in full retreat. |
| 3rd of June 1941 | EVENT | World War II: The Wehrmacht razes the Greek village of Kandanos to the ground, killing 180 of its inhabitants. |
| 3rd of June 1950 | EVENT | First successful ascent of an Eight-thousander; Annapurna is summited by Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal |
| 3rd of June 1956 | EVENT | British Railways renames 'Third Class' passenger facilities as 'Second Class' (Second Class facilities had been abolished in 1875, leaving just First Class and Third Class). |
| 3rd of June 1962 | EVENT | An Air France Boeing 707 charter, Chateau de Sully crashes after an aborted takeoff from Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130. |
| 3rd of June 1963 | EVENT | The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attack protesting Buddhists in Hue, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments. |
| 3rd of June 1963 | EVENT | A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101. |
| 3rd of June 1965 | EVENT | Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. Crew-member Ed White performs the first American spacewalk. |
| 3rd of June 1968 | EVENT | Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times. |
| 3rd of June 1969 | EVENT | Melbourne-Evans collision: Off the coast of South Vietnam, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne cuts the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half. |
| 3rd of June 1973 | EVENT | A Soviet supersonic Tupolev Tu-144 crashes near Goussainville, France, killing 14, the first crash of a supersonic passenger aircraft. |
| 3rd of June 1979 | EVENT | A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill ever recorded |
| 3rd of June 1980 | EVENT | The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak. Seven tornadoes hit Grand Island, Nebraska takes five lives, 357 single-family homes, 33 mobile homes, 85 apartments, 49 businesses and $300 million in damages all told, according to National Weather Service and American Red Cross statistics on the deadly storm. |
| 3rd of June 1982 | EVENT | The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street. He survives but is permanently paralysed. |
| 3rd of June 1984 | EVENT | The Indian Army storms the Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib), the most sacred shrine of Sikhism, near Amritsar. |
| 3rd of June 1989 | EVENT | The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation. |
| 3rd of June 1989 | EVENT | SkyDome is officially opened in Toronto, Ontario |
| 3rd of June 1991 | EVENT | Mount Unzen erupts in Kyushu, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists. |
| 3rd of June 1992 | EVENT | Aboriginal Land Rights are granted in Australia in Mabo v Queensland (1988), a case brought by Eddie Mabo. |
| 3rd of June 1998 | EVENT | Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths. |
| 3rd of June 2006 | EVENT | The union of Serbia and Montenegro comes to an end with Montenegro's formal declaration of independence. |
| 3rd of June 2007 | EVENT | USS Carter Hall engages pirates after they board the Danish ship Danica White off the coast of Somalia. |
| 3rd of June 1537 | BIRTHDAY | John Manuel, Prince of Portugal (d. 1554) |
| 3rd of June 1540 | BIRTHDAY | Charles II of Austria (d. 1590) |
| 3rd of June 1635 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688) |
| 3rd of June 1636 | BIRTHDAY | John Hale, pastor during the Salem witch hunt (d.1700) |
| 3rd of June 1659 | BIRTHDAY | David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708) |
| 3rd of June 1723 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist (d. 1788) |
| 3rd of June 1726 | BIRTHDAY | James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797) |
| 3rd of June 1770 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician (d. 1820) |
| 3rd of June 1808 | BIRTHDAY | Jefferson Davis, American politician and President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889) |
| 3rd of June 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Faidherbe, French general (d. 1889) |
| 3rd of June 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1892) |
| 3rd of June 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918) |
| 3rd of June 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1867) |
| 3rd of June 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912) |
| 3rd of June 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Detlev von Liliencron, German poet (d. 1909) |
| 3rd of June 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Garret Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (d. 1899) |
| 3rd of June 1853 | BIRTHDAY | William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942) |
| 3rd of June 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Erich Hartleben, German writer (d. 1905) |
| 3rd of June 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Ransom E. Olds, American automobile pioneer (d. 1950) |
| 3rd of June 1865 | BIRTHDAY | George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936) |
| 3rd of June 1866 | BIRTHDAY | George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952) |
| 3rd of June 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Loewi, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1961) |
| 3rd of June 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953) |
| 3rd of June 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (d. 1946) |
| 3rd of June 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940) |
| 3rd of June 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born actress, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1945) |
| 3rd of June 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964) |
| 3rd of June 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958) |
| 3rd of June 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Georg von Bekesy, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1972) |
| 3rd of June 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Picard, German-born Israeli geologist (d. 1997) |
| 3rd of June 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Evans, English actor (d. 1989) |
| 3rd of June 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Zhang Xueliang {d. 2001} |
| 3rd of June 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956) |
| 3rd of June 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984) |
| 3rd of June 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Drew,American surgeon,(d. 1950) |
| 3rd of June 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Gottfried Weiss, German, commandant of Dachau concentration camp (d. 1946) |
| 3rd of June 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Josephine Baker, American dancer (d. 1975) |
| 3rd of June 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Rotha, English director (d. 1984) |
| 3rd of June 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Paulette Goddard, American actress (d. 1990) |
| 3rd of June 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999) |
| 3rd of June 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000) |
| 3rd of June 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969) |
| 3rd of June 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Cargill, English actor (d. 1996) |
| 3rd of June 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Lili St. Cyr, American stripper (d. 1999) |
| 3rd of June 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete |
| 3rd of June 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Resnais, French director |
| 3rd of June 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician |
| 3rd of June 1923 | BIRTHDAY | M. Karunanidhi, Indian Politician |
| 3rd of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (d. 1991) |
| 3rd of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (d. 1999) |
| 3rd of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Torsten Wiesel, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate |
| 3rd of June 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (d. 1997) |
| 3rd of June 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Joseph Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2001) |
| 3rd of June 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Curtis, American actor (d. 2010) |
| 3rd of June 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997) |
| 3rd of June 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of June 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Barris, American game show host |
| 3rd of June 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate |
| 3rd of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Wada, Japanese television producers |
| 3rd of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (d. 1999) |
| 3rd of June 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007) |
| 3rd of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | John Norman, American author |
| 3rd of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Francoise Arnoul, French actress |
| 3rd of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Raul Castro, Cuban statesman |
| 3rd of June 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Lindy Remigino, American athlete |
| 3rd of June 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999) |
| 3rd of June 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Rolland D. McCune, American theologian |
| 3rd of June 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Irma P. Hall, American actress |
| 3rd of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Gentile, baseball player |
| 3rd of June 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Larry McMurtry, American author |
| 3rd of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Winter, American actor (d. 2001) |
| 3rd of June 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician |
| 3rd of June 1938 | BIRTHDAY | David L. Mills, American computer engineer |
| 3rd of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Hunter, English musician |
| 3rd of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Dalkowski, baseball player |
| 3rd of June 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American novelist |
| 3rd of June 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Connie Saylor, American racecar driver (d. 1993) |
| 3rd of June 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999) |
| 3rd of June 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Cunningham, American basketball player |
| 3rd of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Edith McGuire, American runner |
| 3rd of June 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete |
| 3rd of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Derbyshire, British-American mathematician and political commentator |
| 3rd of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Hale Irwin, American professional golfer |
| 3rd of June 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Paterson, British actor |
| 3rd of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Clarke, American musician (d. 1993) |
| 3rd of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Holman, American singer |
| 3rd of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Tristan Rogers, Australian-American actor |
| 3rd of June 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Penelope Wilton, British actress |
| 3rd of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T.Rex) (d. 2003) |
| 3rd of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (d. 1986) |
| 3rd of June 1947 | BIRTHDAY | John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor |
| 3rd of June 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Floyd Lloyd, Jamaican reggae singer |
| 3rd of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter |
| 3rd of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Suzi Quatro, American musician and actress |
| 3rd of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Deniece Williams, American singer |
| 3rd of June 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Christos Verelis, Greek politician |
| 3rd of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | David Richards, CBE, British motor racing entrepreneur |
| 3rd of June 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Powell, American keyboardist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2009) |
| 3rd of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Hill, Canadian singer and songwriter |
| 3rd of June 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Wally Weir, Quebec ice hockey player |
| 3rd of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Nessler, American sports broadcaster |
| 3rd of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Wilde, American musician (The Rembrandts) |
| 3rd of June 1956 | BIRTHDAY | George Burley, Scottish football player and manager |
| 3rd of June 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Horst-Ulrich Hanel, German field hockey player |
| 3rd of June 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Margot Kassmann, Lutheran theologian, German bishop |
| 3rd of June 1959 | BIRTHDAY | John Carlson, American talk radio host |
| 3rd of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Wynne, English musician (Ozric Tentacles) |
| 3rd of June 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author |
| 3rd of June 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Susannah Constantine, British fashion guru |
| 3rd of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician |
| 3rd of June 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor |
| 3rd of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Kerry King, American musician (Slayer) |
| 3rd of June 1964 | BIRTHDAY | James Purefoy, British actor |
| 3rd of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Gordon, American musician (Phish) |
| 3rd of June 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Blumenkrantz, American composer and actor |
| 3rd of June 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer |
| 3rd of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Anderson Cooper, American reporter, journalist and anchorman |
| 3rd of June 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Jones, Canadian actor |
| 3rd of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie O'Neal, American singer |
| 3rd of June 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Samantha Sprackling, Nigerian singer |
| 3rd of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician |
| 3rd of June 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Hiroyuki Takami, Japanese musician |
| 3rd of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Masse, French Canadian singer |
| 3rd of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ammon McNeely, American rock climber |
| 3rd of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Tagtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer |
| 3rd of June 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Esther Hart, Dutch singer |
| 3rd of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Everett, American baseball player |
| 3rd of June 1971 | BIRTHDAY | John Hodgman, American author and humorist |
| 3rd of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Arianne Zucker, American actress |
| 3rd of June 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics) |
| 3rd of June 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player |
| 3rd of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Enda Markey, Irish/Australian entertainer |
| 3rd of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Hatzis, Greek basketball player |
| 3rd of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie McMurray, American racecar driver |
| 3rd of June 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Yuri Ruley, American drummer |
| 3rd of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player |
| 3rd of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Travis Hafner, American baseball player |
| 3rd of June 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Cristiano Marques Gomez, Brazilian footballer |
| 3rd of June 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Lyfe Jennings, R&B singer and songwriter |
| 3rd of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Amauri Carvalho de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer |
| 3rd of June 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Lazaros Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player |
| 3rd of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Sosene Anesi, New Zealand rugby player |
| 3rd of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Salvatore Giardina, Italian footballer |
| 3rd of June 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Timur Tekkal, German rugby player |
| 3rd of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dihan Slabbert, South African singer and composer |
| 3rd of June 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter |
| 3rd of June 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Janine Habeck, German model |
| 3rd of June 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Scott, Australian model |
| 3rd of June 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan, Mongolian boxer |
| 3rd of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player |
| 3rd of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer |
| 3rd of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Al Horford, Dominican basketball player |
| 3rd of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Tomas Verner, Czech ice skater |
| 3rd of June 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Valles, Spanish racing driver |
| 3rd of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Lalaine, American actress |
| 3rd of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress |
| 3rd of June 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Keegan, British actress |
| 3rd of June 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Katie Hoff, American swimmer |
| 3rd of June 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Taugourdeau, French footballer |
| 3rd of June 2006 | BIRTHDAY | Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, Member of the Dutch Royal Family |
| 3rd of June 0800 | DEATH | Staurakios, chief minister of the Byzantine Empire |
| 3rd of June 1395 | DEATH | Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria |
| 3rd of June 1397 | DEATH | William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (Born 1328) |
| 3rd of June 1411 | DEATH | Duke Leopold IV of Austria (Born 1371) |
| 3rd of June 1548 | DEATH | Juan de Zumarraga, Spanish Catholic bishop of Mexico (Born 1468) |
| 3rd of June 1594 | DEATH | John Aylmer, English political theorist (Born 1521) |
| 3rd of June 1615 | DEATH | Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (Born 1567) |
| 3rd of June 1640 | DEATH | Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (Born 1584) |
| 3rd of June 1649 | DEATH | Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (Born 1590) |
| 3rd of June 1657 | DEATH | William Harvey, English physician (Born 1578) |
| 3rd of June 1659 | DEATH | Morgan Llwyd, Welsh Puritan preacher and writer (Born 1619) |
| 3rd of June 1780 | DEATH | Thomas Hutchinson, American colonial governor of Massachusetts (Born 1711) |
| 3rd of June 1826 | DEATH | Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (Born 1766) |
| 3rd of June 1858 | DEATH | Julius Reubke, German composer (Born 1834) |
| 3rd of June 1861 | DEATH | Stephen A. Douglas, American politician (Born 1813) |
| 3rd of June 1865 | DEATH | Okada Izo, Japanese samurai (Born 1838) |
| 3rd of June 1875 | DEATH | Georges Bizet, French composer (Born 1838) |
| 3rd of June 1877 | DEATH | Ludwig Ritter von Kochel, Austrian musicologist (Born 1800) |
| 3rd of June 1882 | DEATH | Christian Wilberg, German painter (Born 1839) |
| 3rd of June 1894 | DEATH | Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (Born 1812) |
| 3rd of June 1899 | DEATH | Johann Strauss II, Austrian composer (Born 1825) |
| 3rd of June 1924 | DEATH | Franz Kafka, Czech novelist (Born 1883) |
| 3rd of June 1928 | DEATH | Li Yuan-hung, Chinese general and political figure (Born 1864) |
| 3rd of June 1933 | DEATH | William Muldoon, American wrestler (Born 1852) |
| 3rd of June 1946 | DEATH | Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (Born 1875) |
| 3rd of June 1955 | DEATH | Barbara Graham, American murderer (Born 1923) |
| 3rd of June 1963 | DEATH | Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet (Born 1902) |
| 3rd of June 1963 | DEATH | Pope John XXIII (Born 1881) |
| 3rd of June 1964 | DEATH | Frans Eemil Sillanpaa, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1888) |
| 3rd of June 1970 | DEATH | Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi official (Born 1877) |
| 3rd of June 1971 | DEATH | Heinz Hopf, German mathematician (Born 1894) |
| 3rd of June 1973 | DEATH | Dory Funk, professional wrestler (Born 1919) |
| 3rd of June 1975 | DEATH | Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1901) |
| 3rd of June 1975 | DEATH | Ozzie Nelson, American band leader, producer, director, and actor (Born 1906) |
| 3rd of June 1977 | DEATH | Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1886) |
| 3rd of June 1977 | DEATH | Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (Born 1906) |
| 3rd of June 1983 | DEATH | Nanna, Rafi Khawar, Pakistani actor |
| 3rd of June 1986 | DEATH | Anna Neagle, British actress (Born 1904) |
| 3rd of June 1987 | DEATH | Will Sampson, American actor and artist (Born 1933) |
| 3rd of June 1989 | DEATH | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Shi'ite leader (Born 1900) |
| 3rd of June 1989 | DEATH | John McCauley, hockey official (Born 1945) |
| 3rd of June 1990 | DEATH | Robert Noyce, American inventor (Born 1927) |
| 3rd of June 1990 | DEATH | Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (Born 1949) |
| 3rd of June 1991 | DEATH | Katia Krafft, French volcanologist (Born 1942) |
| 3rd of June 1991 | DEATH | Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (Born 1946) |
| 3rd of June 1991 | DEATH | Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (Born 1913) |
| 3rd of June 1992 | DEATH | Robert Morley, English actor (Born 1908) |
| 3rd of June 1994 | DEATH | Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (Born 1925) |
| 3rd of June 1997 | DEATH | Dennis James, American television personality (Born 1917) |
| 3rd of June 1998 | DEATH | Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (Born 1922) |
| 3rd of June 2001 | DEATH | Anthony Quinn, Mexican-born actor (Born 1915) |
| 3rd of June 2003 | DEATH | Felix de Weldon, Austrian sculptor (Born 1907) |
| 3rd of June 2004 | DEATH | Frances Shand Kydd, mother of Diana, Princess of Wales (Born 1936) |
| 3rd of June 2004 | DEATH | Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (Born 1966) |
| 3rd of June 2005 | DEATH | Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader, writer, and lawyer (Born 1945) |
| 3rd of June 2006 | DEATH | Johnny Grande, original accordion/piano/keyboard player for Bill Haley's Comets (Born 1932) |
| 3rd of June 2009 | DEATH | David Carradine, American actor (Born 1936) |
| 3rd of June 2009 | DEATH | Koko Taylor, American blues musician (Born 1928) |
| 3rd of June 2009 | DEATH | Sam Butera, American jazz musician (Born 1927) |
| 3rd of June 2010 | DEATH | John Hedgecoe, English photographer (Born 1932) |
| 3rd of June 2010 | DEATH | Rue McClanahan, American actress (Born 1934) |